U.N. Development Program Providing Temporary Cleanup Jobs for up to 200,000

TACLOBAN, Philippines—On a side street just off this city's eastern coastline, dozens of residents scurried in and out of a sprawling field of debris on Tuesday, working to remove rubble left behind by the deadliest typhoon ever to hit the Philippines.

The task before them, and their city, appeared herculean. Rubble here is piled 3 to 4 feet high, and complicated by drooping power cables and jagged pieces of smashed wood and...